From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mga03.intel.com ([143.182.124.21]) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1R9hm6-0000d9-C2 for openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org; Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:25:30 +0200 Received: from azsmga001.ch.intel.com ([10.2.17.19]) by azsmga101.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 30 Sep 2011 11:20:00 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.68,468,1312182000"; d="scan'208";a="57487566" Received: from unknown (HELO [10.255.15.62]) ([10.255.15.62]) by azsmga001.ch.intel.com with ESMTP; 30 Sep 2011 11:19:59 -0700 From: Joshua Lock To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:19:54 -0700 In-Reply-To: <1317319633.2134.1.camel@scimitar> References: <1317307935.12332.89.camel@ted> <1317319633.2134.1.camel@scimitar> X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.3 (3.0.3-1.fc15) Message-ID: <1317406800.11645.23.camel@scimitar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: autotools: Remove help2man dependency X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Reply-To: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 18:25:30 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 11:07 -0700, Joshua Lock wrote: > On Thu, 2011-09-29 at 15:52 +0100, Richard Purdie wrote: > > The help2man script is pretty useless to us. It requires to run the target > > binary to extract help information which is not possible for any of our > > cross compiled target binaries. > > > > We're not interested in man pages for -cross/-native tools. > > > > It therefore makes no sense to have this as a core build dependency. > > > > This patch removes the dependeny and replaces it with a script > > returning false. This will trigger autotool's missing utility > > to use the copy of the man page included with the sources which > > is what would already happen when we tried to run cross compiled > > binaries anyway. > > > > Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie > Signed-off-by: Joshua Lock > > Great! By way of a follow on this patch "resolves" Yocto #1533 by no longer calling help2man on the host. http://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1533 Cheers, Joshua -- Joshua Lock Yocto Project "Johannes factotum" Intel Open Source Technology Centre